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Updated: June 4, 2025
"I say, Marianne," said Bob, "have we got fireplaces in our chambers?" "Mamma took care of that," said Marianne. "You may be quite sure," said I, "if your mother has had a hand in planning your house, that the ventilation is cared for."
There are no fireplaces in the houses; and the people keep warm, if they can, by increasing their clothing. Woollen goods are not manufactured to any great extent. "I will not describe the pagodas, pavilions, bridges, and palaces; for you will see them for yourselves.
This doubt really rests on a misconception of the Empire. It is, indeed, akin to the surprise which tourists often exhibit when confronted with Roman remains in an excavation or a museum a surprise that 'the Romans' had boots, or beds, or waterpipes, or fireplaces, or roofs over their heads.
It was so surprising that Dick forgot for a moment the question that he was eagerly awaiting a chance to ask where was his brother Albert? "I've always heard that the Sioux were brave," said Dick vaguely, "and I know they are powerful." "We are the Seven Fireplaces.
Startling scenarios are filmed in his reeling mind while he listens, over the tinkling wire, to the enumeration of rooms, baths, pantries, mortgages, commuting schedules, commodious closets, open fireplaces, and what not.
Some of the interesting facts obtained from this slave of the fourth generation were: Salt was obtained by evaporating sea water, there were no regular stoves, cooking was done by hanging iron pots on rails in the fireplaces, an open well was used to obtain water, flour was sold at $12.00 a barrell, "shin-plasters" was used for money, the first buggy was called "rockaways" due to the elasticity of the leather-springs, Rev.
It was full of great rooms tastefully furnished with simple summery things willow chairs, box window-seats, structural book shelves, great open fireplaces, surmounted by handsome mantels, outward swinging leaded casements, settees, pillow-strewn rustic couches, great fur rugs and robes and things of that character.
They hang them over the fireplaces in the long open verandahs of their houses, they make offerings to them, and they believe that the souls of those whom they have slain will be their slaves in the other world.
It was a grand old mansion dating from the reign of Elizabeth, with mullioned casements, and carved doorways, and cool, dim rooms oak-panelled, and broad fireplaces; and around it lay a shining garden enclosed by old monastic walls of red brick, with shaped beds of carnations glowing redly in the sunlight, and, beyond the straight lines of lawn, a wilderness of nut-trees, with a pool of yellow water-lilies, where wild hyacinths and pale jonquils rioted when it was spring.
The church in Milton had purchased the property from the heirs, who had become involved in ruinous speculation and parted with the house for a sum little representing its real worth. It had been changed a little, and modernized, although the old fireplaces still remained; and one spare room, an annex to the house proper, had been added recently.
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